Saint-Martin-aux-Bois, Saint-Martin
construction history in phases
S-MTN-BO

Building Data for Saint-Martin-aux-Bois, Saint-Martin

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  • Type: Abbey
  • Affiliation: Victorine
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  • Region: Picardie
  • Department: Oise
  • Coords: 49.522, 2.5708
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  • Surveyed: 1972-74, 1980-83, 2015

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Studies These draft studies have been written as if all carvings were by an individual whereas they can equally be analysed as template modes employed by a number of carvers. The more personal approach was necessitated by the complexity of the data. The drafts will be reconsidered after I have added the rib vault material to the database.
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These draft studies have been written as if all carvings were by an individual whereas they can equally be analysed as template modes employed by a number of carvers. The more personal approach was necessitated by the complexity of the data. The drafts will be reconsidered after I have added the rib vault material to the database.

Timeline and building units for Saint-Martin-aux-Bois, Saint-Martin A 'building unit' is an arbitrary unit of work based on bulk billing techniques used by quantity surveyors. The unit is small enough to provide realistic figures in the small churches without becoming too huge in the large. Six units would pay for one small vaulted bay in an aisle about 3 metres square, or a small first-floor gallery. Such a bay would consist of an external wall with a small window, half of two columns about 3 meters tall, the floor and footings under them and the vault and roof overhead.
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A 'building unit' is an arbitrary unit of work based on bulk billing techniques used by quantity surveyors. The unit is small enough to provide realistic figures in the small churches without becoming too huge in the large. Six units would pay for one small vaulted bay in an aisle about 3 metres square, or a small first-floor gallery. Such a bay would consist of an external wall with a small window, half of two columns about 3 meters tall, the floor and footings under them and the vault and roof overhead.

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Phases for Saint-Martin-aux-Bois, Saint-Martin The building sequence is based on my on-site analysis of the construction history, using the techniques developed on the cathedral of Chartres called toichology, and described in a number of publications. The analysis of some of the smaller churches are more approximate than I would like, and need further analysis. <p>I have used 'phase' rather than 'campaign' to to identify a contiguous zone with similar elements. A campaign would be defined by recognisable breaks and construction joints in the fabric: there may be a number of phases within a campaign. One benefit is that separate programs by subcontractors, such as carvers, may be isolated, which is particularly useful in complex sections, such as portals. <p>Every phase has been assigned to a decade, so there may be more than one phase in a decade. <p>While this is certainly imperfect, it will allow us to explore all the data, including costs, across time. This is an on-going process, so as the data continues to be analyzed, the chronology and costing analysis will be further refined, and the synopsis updated. <p>Clicking on any of the decade graphics will display all buildings that had work being done during that decade.
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The building sequence is based on my on-site analysis of the construction history, using the techniques developed on the cathedral of Chartres called toichology, and described in a number of publications. The analysis of some of the smaller churches are more approximate than I would like, and need further analysis.

I have used 'phase' rather than 'campaign' to to identify a contiguous zone with similar elements. A campaign would be defined by recognisable breaks and construction joints in the fabric: there may be a number of phases within a campaign. One benefit is that separate programs by subcontractors, such as carvers, may be isolated, which is particularly useful in complex sections, such as portals.

Every phase has been assigned to a decade, so there may be more than one phase in a decade.

While this is certainly imperfect, it will allow us to explore all the data, including costs, across time. This is an on-going process, so as the data continues to be analyzed, the chronology and costing analysis will be further refined, and the synopsis updated.

Clicking on any of the decade graphics will display all buildings that had work being done during that decade.
1230

Phase 1 - 1230 - setout (b) - 90 Units


The lowest courses, with enormous blocks of stone and bases; design like Ourscamp choir, but earlier as the scotia has not closed; the upstand over the torus blocks for the shafts is also found at Ourscamp
1240

Phase 2 - 1240 - east aisle (s) - 125 Units


Church lower walls and windows in one large campaign of 23 courses (less in the piers) to the aisle capitals; the piers of the western bay are large and suggest they were to support a tower; the details of the eastern windows are those of the Sainte-Chapelle upper chapel and Beauvais ambulatory; the applied tracery over the aisle walls with circular caps; the aisle vaults had wooden ties and the capitals are bec supporting a one-course tas-de-charge; the vice has consistent 2 to 3 treads/block to the top of the triforium windows
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1240

Phase 3 - 1240 - east (a,t) - 319 Units


Church aisle vaults, triforium and eastern window; the fine tracery was first stabilized above the level of the aisle capitals suggesting that all these tall lancets were constructed with the upper parts of the church, though the sills had been laid out beforehand;
Later

Phase 4 - Later - choir (c)


Choir clerestory possibly in the next decade, and I have the impression that it was intended to be even taller, bit the height was set a little lower.